Comments on: From The Flickr Pool: An Awesome China Cabinet http://toolmonger.com/2007/06/13/from-the-flickr-pool-an-awesome-china-cabinet/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:57:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: james b brauer 66 http://toolmonger.com/2007/06/13/from-the-flickr-pool-an-awesome-china-cabinet/#comment-76834 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:01:00 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/06/13/from-the-flickr-pool-an-awesome-china-cabinet/#comment-76834 Thanks for the complements, and now for the thumbnail story: The shelves are supported from the back side by 1/2" steel rods that extend about 10" into the board, then about 2" out the back where they are supported by an 'L' bracket on the back side that is tapped and has an adjuster bolt to make it level. I measured Grandma's china so that the big dinner plates and little plates sit at the same angle in two grooves routed on the shelf. When I routed these grooves I mounted a straight edge across the board, then took my new laminate trimmer with a 1/4" spiral upcut bit and made the cut. It was a long cut, so as I pulled the trimmer across the front it rotated in my hand, and rotated my thumb into the big access hole for tightening the collar. I felt my thumb sort of vibrating, then figgured out what was going on before the pain kicked it. Since I was near the end of the board, I went ahead and finished the cut before I checked my thumb. It left a little ding in the routed groove where I was jerking my hand out, that I like to show off when I tell the story. Thanks for the complements, and now for the thumbnail story: The shelves are supported from the back side by 1/2″ steel rods that extend about 10″ into the board, then about 2″ out the back where they are supported by an ‘L’ bracket on the back side that is tapped and has an adjuster bolt to make it level. I measured Grandma’s china so that the big dinner plates and little plates sit at the same angle in two grooves routed on the shelf. When I routed these grooves I mounted a straight edge across the board, then took my new laminate trimmer with a 1/4″ spiral upcut bit and made the cut. It was a long cut, so as I pulled the trimmer across the front it rotated in my hand, and rotated my thumb into the big access hole for tightening the collar. I felt my thumb sort of vibrating, then figgured out what was going on before the pain kicked it. Since I was near the end of the board, I went ahead and finished the cut before I checked my thumb. It left a little ding in the routed groove where I was jerking my hand out, that I like to show off when I tell the story.

]]> by: Rick http://toolmonger.com/2007/06/13/from-the-flickr-pool-an-awesome-china-cabinet/#comment-76302 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:14:16 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/06/13/from-the-flickr-pool-an-awesome-china-cabinet/#comment-76302 Forget that - James has some dining room and bedroom furniture (dressers) that he built himself.. freaking awesome.. I may try and convince the wife once we have a house to furnish that instead of spending money on furniture, she should just let me buy the equipment I'd need to build it myself (table saw, jointer, planer, router with table) :-D Kudos to James for some really fantastic work.. Forget that - James has some dining room and bedroom furniture (dressers) that he built himself.. freaking awesome.. I may try and convince the wife once we have a house to furnish that instead of spending money on furniture, she should just let me buy the equipment I’d need to build it myself (table saw, jointer, planer, router with table) :-D

Kudos to James for some really fantastic work..

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